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  2. Chain (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The chain (abbreviated ch) is a unit of length equal to 66 feet (22 yards), used in both the US customary and Imperial unit systems. It is subdivided into 100 links. [1] [2] There are 10 chains in a furlong, and 80 chains in one statute mile. [2]

  3. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    17.6 μm – one twip, a unit of length in typography; 10 to 55 μm – width of wool fibre [93] 25.4 μm – 1/1,000 inch, commonly referred to as 1 mil in the U.S. and 1 thou in the UK; 30 μm – length of a human skin cell; 30.8568 μm – 1 zeptoparsec; 50 μm – typical length of Euglena gracilis, a flagellate protist [96]

  4. List of metric units - Wikipedia

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    The unit one (1) is the unit of a quantity of dimension one. It is the neutral element of any system of units. [2] In addition to the unit one, the SI defines 7 base units and associated symbols: The second (s) is the unit of time. The metre (m) is the unit of length. The kilogram (kg) is the unit of mass. The ampere (A) is the unit of electric ...

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In radio astronomy, the unit of electromagnetic flux is the jansky (symbol Jy), equivalent to 10 −26 watts per square metre per hertz (= 10 −26 kg/s 2 in base units, about 8.8×10 −31 BTU/ft 2). It is named after the pioneering radio astronomer Karl Jansky. The brightest natural radio sources have flux densities of the order of one to one ...

  6. Metric system - Wikipedia

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    A unit derived from the base units is used for expressing quantities of dimensions that can be derived from the base dimensions of the system—e.g., the square metre is the derived unit for area, which is derived from length. These derived units are coherent, which means that they involve only products of powers of the base units, without any ...

  7. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    = 8.4 6 × 10 −3 m bohr, atomic unit of length: a 0 = Bohr radius of hydrogen ... Relation to SI units square foot per second: ft 2 /s ≡ 1 ft 2 /s = 0.092 903 04 ...

  8. English units - Wikipedia

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    30.25 square yards. A square rod is also known as a square pole or a square perch. Sometimes the word 'square' is omitted when the context clearly indicates that the subject is area, notably so in the case of British allotment gardens. Rood: 1,012 m 2: One quarter of an acre; one 'furlong' in length by one 'rod' in width; 40 square 'rods'. The ...

  9. Gunter's chain - Wikipedia

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    Since an acre measured 10 square chains in Gunter's system, the entire process of land area measurement could be computed using measurements in chains, and then converted to acres by dividing the results by 10. [2] Hence 10 chains by 10 chains (100 square chains) equals 10 acres, 5 chains by 5 chains (25 square chains) equals 2.5 acres.